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Thank you Charles for bringing some enlightenment!  It is the sound of the
Hip Hop culture.  Rapping can be found in many forms of music - e.g. the
country song "Devil Went Down To Georgia" - hardly a hiphop tune!

Though, to be fair, you'd have to say that Country is also an American
original, and traces it's heritage directly back to Blues.  Though, I'd
argue that there hasn't been innovation in Country in 30 or 40 years, since
the lap steel became popular.  So in a way, Hip Hop, Jazz, and Country all
share common roots in Black American music.  But the great thing about that
culture, is it gets exported, fused, and turns into other things like Rock,
etc., and comes back and gets mutated again, and so on.  In my opinion,
anyone who dislikes a genre is ignorant - there are good songs and bad songs
in any of them.



> From: cas@...
> Reply-To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:20:16 -0000
> To: logic-ot@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [L-OT] British bands
> 
> --- In logic-ot@y..., GAmoore@a... wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I wonder how America rap music plays in Europe. I hear rap
> sounds stuff 
>> played in Indian movies. I think "god they are copying the worst
> part of 
>> American culture"
> 
> Well, you know the old saying about opinions and a**holes;
> everyone has one, and they all stink. :-)
> 
> Hip Hop music (what many uninformed people still call RAP)
> is more than just the music, it's a culture, much like rock & roll
> was back in the day. I don't think it's the worst part of American
> culture. Actually, Hip Hop is probably the ONLY truly 'American'
> music form left besides jazz, and is still the only
> 
> To answer your question, Hip Hop music and culture plays very
> well in Europe. It must not be all that bad.
> 
> Charles
> 
>